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Old 3rd Feb 2018, 10:16 pm   #1
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Hi All,
What is this type of connector called? I need to find a matching plug. It's the amplifier conenction on a Pye TCR2000 car radio.
Thanks, John.
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Old 3rd Feb 2018, 10:54 pm   #2
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It looks like a recessed version of the type of connector used for LT and HT battery connections, and sometimes other internally connections in radios. I've seen plenty of 4-pin ones but never a 5-pin one, though the pin layout looks like 4-pin with a centre pin added, which makes sense. I don't know what the connectors are actually called though.

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This guy claims to have the 5 pin version although the one pictures has 4 pins might be worth asking the question.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-RA...cAAOSwrfVZTjbD

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Isn't the audio board connector in Hacker Sovereigns and the like rather similar?

Or at least the plug- the socket is just split tubes directly soldered to the PCB.
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It was a family of connectors with various numbers of pins and pin configurations.

TheOP's photo shows a 5 pin socket fitted with the grounding fingers plate used to ground the metal shell when the plug is inserted. I've seen these plugs with shielded cable and the shield, or a tail from it, soldered to the plug shell on the outside.

They used to be all over the place in various forms. I haven't a clue about who made them or if the family had a name.

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I think our old Armstrong Stereo 12 had one for the "Multiplex" outboard stereo decoder and had one for the outboard magnetic cartridge pre-amp too. I don't have the unit or its documentation but maybe the connector is named in that long-gone manual...
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Old 4th Feb 2018, 7:08 pm   #7
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They were also used for the same purpose on some Radiomobile car radios.

Quad used them for the tuner power connectors on their valve systems. The normal tuner plug had 4 pins, but IIRC at least one of the sockets on the Quad 22 pre-amp had 5 contacts to use with the special jumper lead to put the AM tuner on one channel and the FM tuner on the other. Alas none of the manuals I can find names these connectors.

I have a 1965 Home Radio catalogue to hand which lists them and simply calls them 'battery plugs and sockets'. The 5 pin one you need was shown. Said catalogue gives the manufacturer as 'RS', so does anyone have any 1960s Radiospares catalogues (mine don't go back far enough)
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Could be Carr Fastener but I`m not sure that`s much help as they are unlikely to still do them.

As far as I remember RS (Radiospares) catalogues in the sixties didn`t give the actual manufacturers name.
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they had them in the 80's on some chinese stuff, I used to have an in car pa unit with one one, they were just like a round lump of black plastic with 6" tails of wire coming out, a bit like a din plug on steroids with no cover.
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Sept-Oct 1966 cat does not include 5 pin (or manufacturer's name).
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Something very similar was used as the glowplug-battery connector on 1970s/1980s radio-controlled aircraft.
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I seem to remember these being used in Brennell tape-recorders to interconnect the control-panel, tape-deck and power-supply. I have seen them with metal and/or black, soft plastic covers and with no covers at all. They were also used for HT and heater connections on RSC (and probably also Linear) amplifiers to supply power to tremolo preamps, tuners, etc.. I have a few, but none which are five-way or would be easy to disconnect from the OP's recessed socket easily.
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Old 4th Feb 2018, 8:19 pm   #13
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I have a vague memory they were made by Amphenol, but I have no idea of the model number.

I saw one recently, used to connect a power supply d.c. output to a Yamaha mixer, I think it was an EMX660.

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Old 6th Feb 2018, 12:24 pm   #14
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Hi John,

I've a 5 pin plug, shroud and socket which may work for you - it's a 5 pin ( central ) version of the 4 pin plug, No.7, shown on the charts below.
If it's the right size, can pop it in post FOC

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Old 6th Feb 2018, 3:45 pm   #15
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Can you tell us where these originated from, Stephen? Simply idle curiosity on my part, I should add.
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Old 6th Feb 2018, 5:28 pm   #16
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Hi Colin,
Can't remember for sure, but I think I might have bought these some years back on eBay.
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Old 8th Feb 2018, 11:14 pm   #17
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Thank you very much Scottart for your offer, however I now have one. I ordered one from the Ebay seller found by Cobaltblue, apparantly he has both 4 and 5 pin versions.
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Old 9th Feb 2018, 6:33 pm   #18
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Default Re: What connector is this?

Just for the record I've found one of the manufacturers, Sato Parts of Japan. They're still going and RS is the distributor...though they dont seem to have these connectors.

I have a NOS pack of the chassis sockets in an 'Archer' bubble pack, (Tandy Radio Shack) and the cat.no is 274-1212.

The description is '5-pin auto speaker sockets' (or plugs, I presume)
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